BHARAHAT or BARHUT, a village in the small state of Nagod in India lying about S.W. of Allahabad. It is famed for the remains of an imposing stzcpa which was excavated in 1874. The stupa was circular, loft. in diameter and 42ft. high. It was surrounded by a stone railing i oof t. in diameter so that between railing and stflpa there was an open circle round which visitors could walk; and the whole stood towards the east side of a paved quadrangle about 3ooft. by 3 2of t., surrounded by a stone wall. The railing consisted of 8o square pillars, 7ft. 1 in. in height, connected by cross-bars about 'ft. broad. Both pillars and cross-bars were elaborately carved in bas-relief, and most of them bore inscrip tions giving either the name of the donor, or the subject of the bas-relief, or both. The forms of letters of the inscriptions, and the architectural details fix the date of the monument in the 3rd century B.C. The bas-reliefs tell of the literature, clothing, build ings and other details of the social conditions of the peoples of Buddhist India at that period; and they emphasize how much more prominent the Tibetan type of Indian was in the north than it is to-day. Unfortunately only about half the pillars, and about one-third of the cross-bars have been recovered. When the stupa was discovered the villagers had already carried off the greater part of the monument to build their cottages with the stones and bricks of it. The process has gone on till now nothing is left except what Gen. Cunningham found and rescued and car ried off to Calcutta.